Sigh. Okay. Just ... okay. I think you're right. I looked at 2023 articles covering the extension-eligibility of contracts signed in the summer of 2021, and they do line up with other players. I dug even effing more and I did find this:
https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2021/01/...or-202021.html
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/l...-for-new-deal/
https://www.givemesport.com/88042183...x-things-know/
Those are literally the only three articles I could find on Google that mentioned it. So it looks like what that Utahn tweeter did a horrible job explaining is that the NBA used a mapping table in 2020 (and probably 2021) to project the abbreviated and altered schedule onto a normal league year. Of course since literally no one in this whole mess can site a source, I don't know for sure that the table isn't public, but that's the sense I got. So while the numerology of simply comparing ratios give somewhat skewed results from what was actually reported, that's probably due to the table being a bit more nuanced that being purely proportionate.
So I really do appreciate you bringing this up, even if I would probably be screaming at you in person for all the bull I've shifted through behind this. I've learned a lot of minutia about the CBA and cap history trying to get to the bottom of this. So you were pretty much right from the start, and while I think it's unacceptable that your recollection was the most solid piece of evidence I could find for at least a day, I'm glad it was there. If Mark has signed a day earlier or day later, a lot of this mess would've been avoided.

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